again this is uh the theme is blade runner um and for uh uh for support
of the theme i have brought obviously you knew i was going to bring my blade runner blaster
when i built from scratch um i also have a really nice uh replica of kay's blaster here um
that uh i just love that piece and then also we did this as a one day build and
we'll include a link below one of dave goldberg's beautiful constructions this is
his snub-nosed blade runner blaster that i built norm and i built a pair of these together
uh let's see morgan says you're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of a sudden
you look down and see a tortoise he says i'm sure you recognize the quote so obviously my question
is do you have a vk machine avoid conf machine in your collection or have you considered making one
the void conf machine is the machine with which uh replicants can uh or nexus six and above can be
identified by their involuntary blush response in their pupils uh i have been working on a vk
machine with some friends we have not completed it the difficulty is this group of friends that
we are putting it together we are we are we are an exacting bunch and each time we come up with
a new piece of knowledge we scrap everything we've done and we kind of start from scratch
but eventually when i'm done yes there will be a vk machine in my collection it's just it's just
nowhere near done right now i did just get a 3d printer which may accelerate some parts of this
process um and we have figured out some pretty cool things about some of the original parts of
the vk that haven't been figured out yet or i don't know maybe they have by this time because
we've been taking so long you never know i i figured out so many things on the zf1 by like 2008
that i never revealed because we never finished mine and then you know it's all about timing
so c morgan i will eventually have a vk but i i don't i don't have it in there in there now um
joe shaver 1104 wants to know if i've ever read do androids dream of electric sheep which is philip k
dick's uh novel from which blade runner is derived that is a reasonable term because they are two
very different stories with different focuses actually i know i remember reading
that philip k dick and ridley scott had significant disagreements on set
uh about what blade runner meant and that's i mean you know that's just gonna happen
because you the author has a thing that they're unpacking right philip k dick writes this story
and he's unpacking some ideas he has about culture and society and decay um that story gets picked up
by the studio they bring in ridley scott he comes with this whole point of view
um legendarily uh shortly after being awarded the job with a budget of like
four million dollars ridley scott apparently did two weeks of furious storyboarding of the film
and immediately got his budget doubled because his vision was so complete um ridley is an amazing
an amazing storyboard artist i think his passion for uh the french comic book artist illustrator
god no term actually justifies his his godliness within the canon um mobius
jean geraud i think it's obvious when i look at ridley scott's uh uh storyboards
that he reveres mobius and mobius is lying i mean there's just nobody who could communicate more
with less than than moebius um so ridley scott brings his own point of view and
i said this in a uh i said this in a in a video a few weeks ago you got to follow the
process not the plan i we understand that like there's a story into android stream of electric
sheep and that you know the author writes that story and a filmmaker can take that story and
translate it to film but when they do they're going to bring their totally own thing to it
this isn't the question that you asked but it's definitely what was on my mind um i don't love
the book as much as i love the movie and i don't i actually think that ridley scott is looking at
some more interesting intra-social dynamics than dick was but that being said i have not read
android stream of electric sheep in 30 years so um i just here's what i remember i remember the
big showdown from the movie being one sentence in the book of like an undeckard shot baddie i mean
that's neither here nor there that's just what one artist chooses to highlight as opposed
to another artist and you know ridley scott's making a blockbuster hollywood film hopefully
he's he's he he wants a big a big uh third act uh catharsis there it is he found it in
the book and he he used that one it might not have been what philip k dick thought of as the
catharsis but i remember reading that and being like i like the movie a little bit better um
but then i have complicated feelings about dicks about philip k dick's uh writing i love his ideas
i love some of his characters and sometimes the writing didn't necessarily transport me
but again it's been a long time since i've read uh android so i shouldn't be giving any kind of like
qualitative commentary whatsoever 20 23 year old me read that one thank you guys so much for
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